Coffee May Help You Live Longer: 6 (New) Ways to Get Your Java Fix!

You already know that coffee can help you live through a long morning meeting, but it also might help you live -- period! We have the scoop on why coffee might extend your life -- and some delicious new ways...

You already know that coffee can help you live through a long morning
meeting, but it also might help you live -- period! We have the scoop on why
coffee might extend your life -- and some delicious new ways to drink it
up.

The National Cancer Institute (NIH) study, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, tracked over 400,000 older adults for almost 14 years and found that those who drank the most coffee were the least likely to die during the study. Men and women who drank four to five cups a day were, in fact, the least likely to die.

“Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in America, but the association between coffee consumption and risk of death has been unclear. We found coffee consumption to be associated with lower risk of death overall, and of death from a number of different causes,” said lead researcher Neal Freedman, PhD, of the NIH. “Although we cannot infer a causal relationship between coffee drinking and lower risk of death, we believe these results do provide some reassurance that coffee drinking does not adversely affect health.”

In other words — this research doesn’t prove it was the coffee that kept those long-livers from keeling over, but it’s certainly not hurting them. Also noteworthy: researchers said that it didn’t matter if the coffee was caffeinated or not — good news if you get the jitters after one cup!

Now, we’re not knocking a good old cup of Joe, but here are some new ideas for ingesting your java:

1. The new
Mocha Cookie Crumble
Frappuccino
and Chocolate Cookie Crumble Frappuccino are now available at Starbucks, but only for a limited time this summer. Definitely save these for a special treat; order a tall with skim milk and no whipped cream for the skinniest version.